Richard Masur
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Francine Hughes marries her small-town high-school sweetheart Mickey only to discover his temper is short and his behavior violent. Urged to hang in there by her family and a broken social welfare system, she suffers continuous abuse, until desperation leads her to cross a threshold from which neither her nor her husband can ever return.
2) Multiplicity
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy about a man who clones himself to save his marriage and then almost loses his wife to himself.
3) Palindromes
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a mother, as told through different actors playing the same character and her journey in a variety of ways.
4) It
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends...
Series
Criterion collection volume 636
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (216 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages ; color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
6) Walker
Series
Criterion collection volume 423
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the contra war the film...
Author
Language
English
Description
Two rooftops in suburban Ohio. A 75-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl sit on houses full of secrets. Literally. Bernard wants nothing more than to enjoy his beer (and perhaps kill a few sparrows), but Rory next door has different plans for him.
With six decades between them and only four chance encounters to connect, these unlikely new friends unearth what's buried in each other and find new ground.
The Net Will Appear features Emmy-nominated...